I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThis world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
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The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!
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Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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Sunlight is painting.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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